One of our clients recently canceled their contract with us. While we're sad to see them go, we recognize that their business has changed in the time we've been working with them—more than a decade, actually. This particular company was focused on IT services for public school systems and providing a way to keep everything [...]
One of our clients, the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS), needed to buy some new hardware and do a hardware migration. Some changes in licensing requirements and the need to be in full compliance were motivating the switch. Their internal team priced out options for the hardware migration but also priced out options for [...]
With the latest Oracle Database release (version 18c), there's a cloud-only product available called Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud that allows for a more autonomous data warehouse. It's not artificial intelligence really, but more of a self-monitoring and self-adjusting system. Some of the hands-on tasks that a database administrator previously had to work on have now [...]
At LSG Solutions, we've long been proponents of Oracle Apex software. Because of Apex's low code concept, it allows for developers to produce applications much more quickly and without having to know all the specifics of HTML, CSS, Javascript, and other coding languages. Apex first appeared as a product in 2004 with HTML-DB, and it's [...]
We've long been a proponent of Oracle hardware and software and have many clients utilizing it. Many years ago, Oracle didn't have a lot of flexibility in their offerings to meet different client needs and different budgets, but it was still a great option when it fit the need. In recent years, they've significantly expanded [...]